Since ForeverLive!2017, I've been so busy trying to catch up... on top of the organization projects I've started to get my household back in order! Anyway, at ForeverLive, a genealogist and keynote speaker showed us three photos of her father... the only three in existence. He was the family photographer and wasn't in many family photos because he was always behind the camera. On top of that, a house fire destroyed all their family albums and heirlooms. Decades later, she was at a hometown event and someone gave her a photo of her father as a baby that the person had all these years; the speaker had never seen her father as a baby. Now she had four photos of her father.

Another speaker told a story about someone who had a photo of the speaker's father in the background many years earlier. The speaker had said he'd never seen his father as a young man.

For me, the takeaway from all this is:

1) Photographers need to tell their story also. If you're a photographer, please please please get in some of the photos so your descendants will know what you look like!!!

2) Photos that you think may be unimportant to you will definitely be precious to someone.

3) Every photo has a story to tell... otherwise you wouldn't take the picture. Let the story be told and make someone happy ;)